Senior Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst, Okta

• You’re a passionate and experienced threat intelligence practitioner
• You have great communications skills and a thirst for knowledge
• You enjoy working under limited supervision, using priority intelligence requirements to drive the direction of your efforts
• You’re a team player and a mentor to less experienced colleagues
• You’re curious about systems and how they interact, knowing that to properly defend a system you must first understand how it works
• You have a knack for synthesizing information from disparate data sources, understanding what’s relevant, and communicating your assessments to others
• If you don’t have a degree, you have equivalent experience that’s given you the foundational knowledge to understand complex computing environments
• Strong understanding of network security fundamentals and their application to threat actor tracking. You should be very familiar with core protocols such as TCP/IP, TLS and DNS, etc
• A minimum of 5 years experience in cyber threat intelligence or threat research roles
• Experience in performing research into the tactics, techniques and procedures of sophisticated adversaries and hunting for evidence of them within an enterprise environment
• Ability to work independently and achieve outcomes with limited direct supervision
• Excellent communication and writing skills (work samples encouraged)
• We love to identify individuals who can supplement and enhance the existing skills within our team. Don’t be put off by the length of this list - we’re not looking for unicorns, but we would highly value applicants who have experience one - or multiple - of the following areas:

Desirable

• The Cyber Defense (CD) team is seeking an experienced cyber threat intelligence analyst to contribute to the enhancement of our threat intelligence capabilities
• You will be the first member of our EMEA Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) team, as we expand to provide global intelligence coverage
• The CTI team is an essential component of Cyber Defense’s intelligence-led approach to protecting Okta
• They monitor and perform research focused on the methodologies used by threat actors that seek to target Okta, our products and our customers
• By better understanding their motives, tactics and techniques, we can assist our security teams in defending against them
• Identify, collate, assess and disseminate intelligence on the tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) of threat actors relevant to Okta
• Assist in the maintenance and ongoing improvement of our Threat Intelligence Platform to ingest and disseminate indicators of compromise for use by our defensive teams and tooling
• Monitor and maintain a detailed understanding of the cyber threat landscape, as it pertains to Okta and our customers and communicate curated knowledge with key stakeholders in written and oral formats
• Use our Priority Intelligence Requirements to identify and distribute intelligence of interest to CTI’s stakeholders including our security, IT and product engineering teams
• Provide tactical cyber intelligence support to the incident commander as required during security incidents or events of interest
• Conduct research to support threat investigations using a combination of open-source and internal data and tools, make informed judgements and document assessed findings and conclusions